Production DBA checklist diagram for Oracle AI Database 26ai deployment covering vector infrastructure sizing, JSON Relational Duality deployment gates, and Select AI governance decisions

Building an AI-Ready Oracle Database: A Production DBA Checklist

Three weeks before go-live on an Oracle AI Database 26ai deployment, we ran a readiness review mostly with the help of Oracle AI Database 26ai production DBA checklist. At the surface level, things looked stable. Vector search was working in staging. JSON Relational Duality Views were serving the REST layer. Select AI was configured against Read more about Building an AI-Ready Oracle Database: A Production DBA Checklist[…]

Architecture diagram showing Oracle AI Database 26ai Select AI flow — natural language input, schema metadata sent to external LLM, generated SQL returned and executed against relational tables

Select AI: Talking to Your Database in Plain English

A developer on our team sent a message last week: “Is there a way to just ask the database how many Critical errors are in the Memory category without writing SQL?” He had heard about Oracle Select AI 26ai and wanted to know if it was live on our instance. That question is exactly the Read more about Select AI: Talking to Your Database in Plain English[…]

Oracle 23ai — Why Oracle Calls It The AI Database

A few months ago, we were in an architecture review when the solutions architect put up a slide titled “AI Stack — Proposed.” Oracle was in the middle tier, doing what it always does — transactions, reporting, the core workload. Sitting beside it, in its own separate box, was a vector database. Pinecone, specifically. The Read more about Oracle 23ai — Why Oracle Calls It The AI Database[…]